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     <div id="header"><h2 style="margin-right: 1.5em;">Description of MS C: <span style="font-style: italic;">Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 265</span></h2></div>
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       <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">General description</h3>


<p>Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 265 is a composite volume in three parts, described as a two-part collection by M. R. James,
<span style="font-weight: bold;">A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge</span>, 2:14-21. James' account has been corrected by Hans Sauer, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Theodulfi
Capitula</span>. Sauer demonstrates that James' Part A should be divided into A and B.
The MS
includes homilies by Wulfstan and pastoral letters by &AElig;lfric.  The MS  is referred to
by Thorpe, Liebermann, and others as MS C. It has been discussed by Bateson,  <span style="font-weight: bold;">EHR</span> 10 (1895),
712, and, more recently, by Sauer and by Christopher Jones, <span style="font-weight: bold;">&AElig;lfric's Latin Letter to
the
Monks at Eynsham</span> (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998).  In addition to the OE
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Handbook</span>, the MS contains many Latin penitential texts, including an ordo
confessionis (p. 94), the so-called <span style="font-weight: bold;">Excerptiones Ecgberti</span>, closely related to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Penitential
of Theodore</span> (pp.
95-96), and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canones Hibernensis</span> (pp. 96-97), and other canons edited by
Wasserschleben, Thorpe, Bateson, and others.  For a full list, see "Penitential contents in Latin," below.
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The MS is dated s. xi<sup>med</sup>  (Ker, p. 92); s. xi<sup>med</sup>-xi<sup>3/4</sup>; Worcester (Gneuss, p. 35). Catalogue numbers: Ker #53, Gneuss #73. </p>
    	     <p>With permission of the Parker Library, Cambridge University, two pages of this manuscript are reproduced below: <a href="mshd265.html#72">p. 72</a> and <a href="mshd265.html#77">p. 77</a>. <a href="msch265.html">Table 1</a> shows the content of the manuscript by folio.

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       <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Writing surface</h3>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Dimensions</span>: 265 mm x 160 mm; written space 200 mm x 110 mm.
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Page layout:</span> foliation markers pen/pencil:  the first folio of each quire (1-17) is numbered; average number of lines per page:  26 long lines
(varies); double markers in left and right margins.
no. of leaves or folios:  268 folios.</p>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Collation:</span> In addition to Ker, see Sauer, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Theodulfi Capitula</span>, p. 46. Part A contains 134 leaves in 17 quires (1-14: 8; 15: 6; 16-17: 8, single leaves in 3 and 12-14). 
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       <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Hands</h3>
<p>"Irregular and uncalligraphic" is how Ker describes the hand that wrote pp. 72-83. He
adds that "at least part of the manuscript was written at Worcester" (p. 94).
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       <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Vernacular penitential content</h3>
<p>The text of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Handbook</span>in this manuscript contains chapter headings; no other manuscript does.<br/>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Handbook</span> 1: p. 72       <br/>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Handbook</span> 3: p. 72-73     <br/>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Handbook</span> 4: p. 73-79     <br/>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Handbook</span> 5: p. 79-83     
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pp. 37-50:     <span style="font-weight: bold;">Penitential</span> of Egbert (Haddan and Stubbs, 3:416
ff)<br/>
pp. 50-51:     <span style="font-weight: bold;">Penitential</span> of Pseudo-Theodore, excerpts (Thorpe, 2:
306)<br/>
pp. 58-59:     <span style="font-weight: bold;">Penitential</span> of Pseudo-Theodore, excerpts (Thorpe, 2:
278, 305)<br/>
p. 66:         possibly <span style="font-weight: bold;">Penitential</span> of Pseudo-Theodore, excerpts <br/>
p. 94          <span style="font-weight: bold;">ordo confessionis</span>, ed. Wasserschleben, pp. 360-61 (from
the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pen. Pseudo-Romanorum</span>)<br/>
pp. 95-95 possibly <span style="font-weight: bold;">Penitential</span> of Pseudo-Theodore, excerpts <br/>
pp. 96    <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canones Hibernensis</span>, excerpts (Thorpe, 2: 332).<br/>
pp. 100-104    <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canones Wallici</span>, ed. Bieler, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Irish Penitentials</span>, pp.
136-49.</p>
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Not included in the description above:  the so-called <span style="font-weight: bold;">Excerptiones
Egberti</span>, ed. Aronstam; in the MS, pp. 22-37, 93-94, 96.</p>

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       <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Index by folio</h3>
<p>This <a href="msch265.html">table</a> contains a list of chapters by folio.
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<p>Here are two facsimile pages.<br/>
<a name="72">P. 72</a> shows, line 6 down, with the capital I of Incipit, the Latin text of Book 1 of the Handbook (much of it erased in MS D, Corpus 201).<br/>
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On <a name="77">P. 77</a> shows the use of chapter headings in the right margin, a distinctive feature of this manuscript.<br/>
<img src="pics/c265p77.jpg">
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